Senior classroom teachers (Year 4 to 6) are now using the Mac App Readkit on their laptops to manage their students individual blogs. This affordable little tool allows you to see every blog post from every student and to link to their blogs to post formative assessment and comments. It not only saves time but has a very streamline user friendly interface.

I just created a little something to showcase how we prepare our students for their digital futures……..feel free to share with your students and celebrate their journey.Your browser doesn’t support the video tag

Keep your eyes posted for exciting arrivals around the school…….Team 15 and 16 have recorded their fabulous reading of popular children’s picture books and poems. Just get your learners to use the ‘QR Reader’ or Scan app on their iPads and hover over the QR codes to have the stories magically appear!

LEARNING INTENTIONS :
Students will ask questions about their food choices and how these affect their health, growth and development.
Students will identify their personal needs and wants in relation to recommended fruit intake.
Students will make choices about fruits that they like and dislike as a meal choice.
Students will explore pencil sketching techniques using a range of different fruits as a subject.
Students will choose & use the app. Mojo Masks on an ipad to manipulate an image of themselves to display with their fruit choices.

PROCESS OF THE PROJECT :
Different fruits were halved:
students-did pencil sketch/dyed/ outlined and cut out.
Used ipad and app. mojo masks manipulated the image to best effect and took a photo of themselves.
Teacher printed photos/ put on backing paper/cut/mounted on blocks of polystrene for 3D look.
Students-Chose a background colour/arranged the fruit and mask/ glued.
Students- photographed using ipad, added frame using website piZap.
Learning- names of fruits/ smell taste and feel of fruits/ pencil sketching techniques/ outlining, cutting and glueing skills.
Composition and positioning within an art work.
Visual effect of using 3D image.

Learners were required to script and create an advertisement of an unusual product of their creation. They were required to use the characteristics of an effective advertisement as part of their production, effective editing and a variety of software tools. The script had to use a variety of advertising techniques, and the advertisement needed to be edited in a way that was catchy and interesting to potential viewers.

PROCESS OF THE PROJECT : (From the creators)
Ella came up with the idea of women beards. First we had to come up with the different types of beards we would have. We both wrote the script. Holly came up with the idea of green screening for the bathroom. We had a lot of fun together while doing this. We learnt that sometimes things don’t go as you planned, so you might have to just change something to fit in with whatever problems we have. We also learnt how to green screen.

LEARNING INTENTIONS :
Students chose to retell a local legend using a variety of tools and were responsible for the adaptation of the narrative, including the creation of setting, character, problem and solution. Students were required to demonstrate the understanding and effective use of parts of a narrative to create an interesting and engaging story. Students were required to use the writing of script and the editing of the movie to create effect and interest from the audience.

PROCESS OF THE PROJECT :
Students used part of our school production script to create their story. Students created the entire setting using Minecraft and recorded the script by all logging in to the same world and acting it out. This required a huge amount of effort and collaboration. Students screencasted their work using quicktime player on one of the computers and added the voice over, and a variety of visual effects using iMovie. Students made huge efforts editing and the movie on iMovie and overcame a variety of challenges in the process.

LEARNING INTENTIONS :
Students chose to tell a local legend using a variety of tools and were responsible for the writing of the narrative, including the creation of setting, character, problem and solution. Students were required to demonstrate the understanding and effective use of parts of a narrative to create an interesting and engaging story. Students were required to use the writing of script and the editing of the movie to create effect and interest from the audience.

PROCESS OF THE PROJECT :
Students heavily adapted part of our school production script to create their story. Students created the entire setting using Minecraft and recorded the script by all logging in to the same world and acting it out. This required a huge amount of effort and collaboration. Students screencasted their work using quicktime player on one of the computers and added the voice over, and a variety of visual effects using iMovie. Students made huge efforts editing and the movie on iMovie and overcame a variety of challenges in the process.

Purpose

This blog is a place for the ICT PLC Group to showcase and share E-Learning experiences taking place within Te Akau ki Papamoa School.
Unless it states otherwise Paula will be posting all the content on this site so feel free to have a conversation about any questions or wonderings you may have or for support with anything you'd like to give a go in your classroom.